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The substring() function allows you to pull out any combination of characters from a string.  In this example, an unformated date string such as 19990422 (which represents April 22, 1999) can be split up into 1999, 04, and 22.  Each of these are separate variables that you can deal with independently in your scripts!  Neat!
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var date = "19990422"; // yyyymmdd variable
year = date.substring(0,4);
month = date.substring(4,6);
day = date.substring(6,8);
datestring = month + "/" + day + "/" + year;
document.writeln(date + " converts to " + datestring);
//  End -->
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<p>Simply click inside the window below, use your cursor to highlight the script, and copy (type Control-c or Apple-c) the script into a new file in your text editor (such as Note Pad or Simple Text) and save (Control-s or Apple-s).  The script is yours!!!
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&lt;!-- ONE STEP TO INSTALL SPLIT STRING:

  1.  Copy the coding into the BODY of your HTML document  --&gt;

&lt;!-- STEP ONE: Paste this code into the BODY of your HTML document  --&gt;

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var date = "19990422"; // yyyymmdd variable
year = date.substring(0,4);
month = date.substring(4,6);
day = date.substring(6,8);
datestring = month + "/" + day + "/" + year;
document.writeln(date + " converts to " + datestring);
//  End --&gt;
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